Jerry DeMarco

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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Edison, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Predator Got Nudes From Girls By Posing As Trainer, Online Dater, Career Consultant: Feds NJ Predator Got Nudes From Girls By Posing As Trainer, Online Dater, Career Consultant: Feds NJ Predator Got Nudes From Girls By Posing As Trainer, Online Dater, Career Consultant: Feds
NJ Predator Got Nudes From Girls By Posing As Trainer, Online Dater, Career Consultant: Feds A New Jersey man posed online as a man seeking romance, a woman offering career help and a personal trainer to persuade female teens to send him nude photos and videos, federal authorities charged. Sunil Vaid, 50, of North Brunswick "used multiple fraudulent online personas on a social media platform and several email accounts to target female victims under the age of 18," U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. "At different times, he posed as a male who was interested in a romantic relationship and could help them start their modeling careers, a female who could help their …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck Resident, 69, Charged With Robbing Bank Right Down The Street Teaneck Resident, 69, Charged With Robbing Bank Right Down The Street Teaneck Resident, 69, Charged With Robbing Bank Right Down The Street
Teaneck Resident, 69, Charged With Robbing Bank Right Down The Street GOTCHA! A man who robbed a Teaneck bank of several thousand dollars lives right up the block, authorities said after he was taken into custody a short time later. Leo Richard Jones Jr., 69, was dressed all in black when he passed a note "threatening bodily injury" to a teller at the Chase Bank on Cedar Lane shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, Teaneck Deputy Police Chief Andrew McGurr said. No weapon was shown, the deputy chief said. A bank employee dialed 911 as Jones ran up the street toward the Cedar Lane garden apartment complex where he lives (at right in photo above), McGurr sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Cell Tower Workers Stuck In The Air Rescued By Fair Lawn Firefighters Cell Tower Workers Stuck In The Air Rescued By Fair Lawn Firefighters Cell Tower Workers Stuck In The Air Rescued By Fair Lawn Firefighters
Cell Tower Workers Stuck In The Air Rescued By Fair Lawn Firefighters Three workers handling a job on a cellphone tower were rescued by Fair Lawn firefighters after their lift got stuck. Members of Fair Lawn Fire Company #2 brought their ladder truck to the borough DPW complex on Saddle River Road shortly before 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 20. All three workers climbed down the 50 or so feet without any trouble. Firefighters from Fair Lawn Fire Company #2 brought a ladder truck to the Fair Lawn DPW garage on Saddle River Road on Thursday, Oct. 20.Boyd A. Loving A mechanic was summoned to fix the controls on the boom. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and con…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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Hudson County Man Seized By Federal Agents In $1M ID Theft Scheme Hudson County Man Seized By Federal Agents In $1M ID Theft Scheme Hudson County Man Seized By Federal Agents In $1M ID Theft Scheme
Hudson County Man Seized By Federal Agents In $1M ID Theft Scheme A Hudson County man was seized by federal agents early Thursday on charges of pocketing more than $1 million from victims whose identities they said he stole. Marc Lazarre, 37, of Secaucus was charged with bank fraud and aggravated ID theft charges following his arrest the morning of Oct. 20, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Lazarre swiped bank account and personal identity information to open accounts in the victims’ names without their knowledge and then withdrew funds, Sellinger said. Lazarre also "unlawfully obtained checks made out to victims, used fraudulent identificati…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Pedestrian Struck On Route 17 In Ramsey Airlifted To St. Joe's UPDATE: Pedestrian Struck On Route 17 In Ramsey Airlifted To St. Joe's UPDATE: Pedestrian Struck On Route 17 In Ramsey Airlifted To St. Joe's
Update: Pedestrian Struck On Route 17 In Ramsey Airlifted To St. Joe's UPDATE: Two vehicles hit a man as he tried to cross dark, busy Route 17 in Ramsey, authorities said. Described only as in his 20s, the victim was wearing dark clothing when he tried to make his way across the highway roughly a half-mile south of the Lake Street overpass shortly after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, Ramsey Police Chief Brian Lyman said. Where he was headed wasn’t clear. He was struck in the southbound lanes by two vehicles, the chief said. “The operators of both vehicles, as well as multiple witnesses, stopped and remained” at the scene, Lyman said. Police temporarily close…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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SURPRISE! App Leads Bergen Sheriff's Officers Directly To Mercedes Thief At Mall In Paramus SURPRISE! App Leads Bergen Sheriff's Officers Directly To Mercedes Thief At Mall In Paramus SURPRISE! App Leads Bergen Sheriff's Officers Directly To Mercedes Thief At Mall In Paramus
Surprise! App Leads Bergen Sheriff's Officers Directly To Mercedes Thief At Mall In Paramus A Hackensack repeat offender who swiped a Mercedes Benz apparently hadn't counted on technology to dime him out while he went shopping at a local mall with the victim's wallet, authorities said. The CLA owner, who’d misplaced his keys and fob at Bergen Community College, reported the vehicle stolen, then used a “Mercedes me connect” app feature to pinpoint its location – the Bergen Town Center mall in Paramus, county Sheriff Anthony Cureton said. Cureton’s officials found the sedan at the mall, then learned from a passerby that the driver had gone into the Target, the sheriff said. So the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Seven Charged In Armed Saddle Brook Home Invasion Seven Charged In Armed Saddle Brook Home Invasion Seven Charged In Armed Saddle Brook Home Invasion
Seven Charged In Armed Saddle Brook Home Invasion A virtual mountain of evidence uncovered by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives and Saddle Brook police produced the arrests of two ex-cons and five other suspects following what authorities said was a gunpoint home invasion this past summer. At least two victims had weapons pointed at them as the bandits forced their way in and took $12,500 in cash, $3,000 worth of jewelry, a wallet with multiple credit and debit cards and cellphone around 12:30 a.m. June 28, investigators said. Bergen County prosecutor's detectives who worked the case found a lot to go on. They and their Saddle Brook co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Fairview ‘Full Service’ Massage Parlors Raided: Four Busted, Two Taken By Feds, $11,291 Seized Fairview ‘Full Service’ Massage Parlors Raided: Four Busted, Two Taken By Feds, $11,291 Seized Fairview ‘Full Service’ Massage Parlors Raided: Four Busted, Two Taken By Feds, $11,291 Seized
Fairview ‘Full Service’ Massage Parlors Raided: Four Busted, Two Taken By Feds, $11,291 Seized An undercover detective had just entered a Fairview massage parlor when an employee stripped naked and listed the prices for oral sex and intercourse, authorities said. The investigator was part of a joint task force that took down what authorities said essentially were two “full service” brothels operating as massage parlors just blocks apart. Members of the federal Homeland Security Investigations’ Human Trafficking Unit seized two women on potential immigration violations, Fairview Police Detective Lt. Michael Martic said. Four other women were busted by borough police, the lieutenant…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck Resident, 69, Robbed Bank Right Down The Block: Authorities Teaneck Resident, 69, Robbed Bank Right Down The Block: Authorities Teaneck Resident, 69, Robbed Bank Right Down The Block: Authorities
Teaneck Resident, 69, Robbed Bank Right Down The Block: Authorities GOTCHA! A man who robbed a Teaneck bank of several thousand dollars lives right up the block, authorities said after he was taken into custody a short time later. Leo Richard Jones Jr., 69, was dressed all in black when he passed a note "threatening bodily injury" to a teller at the Chase Bank on Cedar Lane shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, Teaneck Deputy Police Chief Andrew McGurr said. No weapon was shown, the deputy chief said. A bank employee dialed 911 as Jones ran up the street toward the Cedar Lane garden apartment complex where he lives (at right in photo below), McGurr sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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GOTCHA! Repeat Offender Resists After Hackensack Police Track Him Down: Authorities GOTCHA! Repeat Offender Resists After Hackensack Police Track Him Down: Authorities GOTCHA! Repeat Offender Resists After Hackensack Police Track Him Down: Authorities
Gotcha! Repeat Offender Resists After Hackensack Police Track Him Down: Authorities A repeat offender was arrested for the third time in a little over seven months after Hackensack police said he committed a series of vehicle burglaries along a stretch of high-rises. He put up a fight, though, and had to be Tased, authorities said. Reggie Scott, 40, initially eluded security guards -- as well as a police manhunt -- following break-ins along Prospect Avenue, Hackensack Police Director Raymond Guidetti said. On Tuesday, Oct. 19, however, he was behind bars. "During the month of October, the City of Hackensack suffered from a rash of burglaries to a number of motor vehicles…

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